 New Brunswick electoral district | |
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| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick |
| District created | 1967 |
| District abolished | 1973 |
| First contested | 1967 |
| Last contested | 1970 |
Saint John East was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It used a bloc voting system to elect candidates, and was created from Saint John County in 1967. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | Member | Party | ||
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| Riding created from Saint John County | |||||||
| 46th | 1967 – 1970 | Charles A. McIlveen[1] | Progressive Conservative | William J. Woodroffe | Progressive Conservative | ||
| 47th | 1970 – 1972 | ||||||
| 1972 – 1974 | Gerald Merrithew | Progressive Conservative | |||||
| Riding dissolved into East Saint John and Saint John-Fundy | |||||||
Election results
| New Brunswick provincial by-election, 11 December 1972 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gerry S. Merrithew | 3,408 | 
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| Liberal | Gordie M. Foster | 2,825 | ||||||
| New Democratic | Eldon Richardson, Jr. | 275 | ||||||
| 1970 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Charles A. McIlveen | 5,332 |
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| Progressive Conservative | William J. Woodroffe | 5,200 |
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| Liberal | Fred Cave | 3,102 | ||||||
| Liberal | Michael B. McGrath | 2,863 | ||||||
| New Democratic | Lindsay F. Sabean | 579 | ||||||
| New Democratic | Alphonse Hébert | 565 | ||||||
| 1967 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Charles A. McIlveen | 5,052 |
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| Progressive Conservative | William J. Woodroffe | 5,033 |
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| Liberal | Fred Cave | 3,541 | ||||||
| Liberal | Paul E. Mackin | 3,388 | ||||||
References
- ^ died in 1972
This page was last edited on 12 June 2023, at 20:03